Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for April 15, 2023

The answer was simple “42”!

Tony asked

Math or English?

Yes.

What is seven divided by purple plus jump times the only word that rhymes with woman? (Don’t forget your PEMDAS)

I’d probably do the same thing. When I was home schooling my oldest great-granddaughter, they started teaching Algebra in grade 3. I wanted to cry in despair!

My father was gifted mathematically. Although he and his siblings were denied a high school education (conservative Mennonites only went through 8th grade), he intuitively grasped difficult math problems. 11th grade Algebra II & Trig was my bane. I’d hand him my homework—an alphabet soup of polynomials—he’d stare silently at the equation for 15 seconds and declare an answer. When asked how he arrived at it, he said he couldn’t explain it. The next day in class, Mrs. Moynihan would spend 3-4 minutes factoring out the problem across the blackboard that took Dad a fraction of the time to solve in his head.

The problem involves Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

Had a lot of parents like that who were awful at math, but were incensed their kids were having trouble with it… never knew what to say (I thought of a lot of things, but didn’t say most of them)

“Man oh man, have they still not solved it? They were trying to work this one out back when I was a kid!!”

The answer is Chat GPT.

and if the mother doesn’t know, ask cousin Spork followed by friend Maria

That’s his standard answer.

Math Mother, or just Mather.

I used to love math, but the way they teach it now is really more confusing and just plain dumb!